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Little rain in the first 8 months of 2022 resulted in more falls than rises. See our attempts to improve the seal, tadpoles arriving, wild flowers in rich bloom, and an empty water-feed ditch.
Then water comes back in the autumn, after rain.
Pond created January 2022 by my son Jack with his digger (!) and we made a video then: • Large All Natural Pond...
This video was filmed then edited by my other son Edward with his C100's and also from the iPhone, edowdingfilms....
00:00 Introduction
00:08 The results of a very dry summer
00:59 The pond on 4th November 2022, after recent storms
01:50 And then in late December, now full of water
02:23 I explain why I didn’t want to use a liner
03:15 Making a pond in clay the winter before, and creating a ditch for water input
04:21 Possible hole at the bottom, and how we’ve tried to rectify it
05:17 Using bentonite clay to seal cracks - the process and results with Brendan Mulqueen
08:12 My reasons for wanting a pond
Weather records are on this page of my website show rainfall over 8 months www.charlesdow...
January to August was 317 mm, then 457 mm fell in the next four months.
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